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Drupal vs Mezzanine CMS: What are the differences?
Developers describe Drupal as "Free, Open, Modular CMS written in PHP". Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. On the other hand, Mezzanine CMS is detailed as "*A Content Management System written in Python *". It is a powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform. Built using the Django framework, it provides a simple yet highly extensible architecture that encourages diving in and hacking on the code. Mezzanine is BSD licensed and supported by a diverse and active community.
Drupal and Mezzanine CMS can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Drupal are:
- Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creators
- Manage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.
- Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits.
On the other hand, Mezzanine CMS provides the following key features:
- Hierarchical page navigation
- Save as draft and preview on site
- Scheduled publishing
Mezzanine CMS is an open source tool with 3.89K GitHub stars and 1.42K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mezzanine CMS's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Drupal
- Stable, highly functional cms75
- Great community60
- Easy cms to make websites44
- Highly customizable43
- Digital customer experience delivery platform22
- Really powerful17
- Customizable16
- Flexible11
- Good tool for prototyping10
- Enterprise proven over many years when others failed9
- Headless adds even more power/flexibility8
- Open source8
- Each version becomes more intuitive for clients to use7
- Well documented7
- Lego blocks methodology6
- Caching and performance4
- Built on Symfony3
- Powerful3
- Can build anything3
- Views2
- API-based CMS2
Pros of Mezzanine CMS
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Cons of Drupal
- DJango1
- Steep learning curve1